New 
Principal Software Engineer
 Microsoft | |
 United States, Texas, Irving | |
| 7000 State Highway 161 (Show on map) | |
 Oct 10, 2025 | |
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OverviewAzure Service Fabric is a decentralized runtime and platform designed to address some of the most complex challenges in distributed systems, including failure detection, leader election, and replicated state machines-core components for building large-scale, reliable, and highly available solutions. It powers essential services such as the Azure Control Plane, Azure SQL Database, and Azure Cosmos Database, and operates seamlessly across both cloud and on-premises environments.As a Principal Software Engineer on the Azure Service Fabric team, you will design and deliver innovative, cloud-scale distributed systems while deepening your expertise in building software that supports fault tolerance, self-management, and scalable operations. You will work closely with a collaborative team dedicated to providing a secure and managed Service Fabric environment that enables customers to build highly available applications and services on Microsoft Azure at scale.This role offers the opportunity to influence the evolution of a platform that underpins critical workloads across the globe. You will contribute to advancing reliability, performance, and automation while working in an environment that values technical excellence, continuous learning, and customer impact.Microsoft's mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others, and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond.
ResponsibilitiesPartners with appropriate stakeholders to determine user requirements for a set of scenarios.Leads identification of dependencies and the development of design documents for a product, application, service, or platform.Leads by example and mentor others to produce extensible and maintainable code used across products.Leverages subject-matter expertise of cross-product features with appropriate stakeholders (e.g., project managers) to drive multiple group's project plans, release plans, and work items.Holds accountability as a Designated Responsible Individual (DRI), mentoring engineers across products/solutions, working on-call to monitor system/product/service for degradation, downtime, or interruptions.Proactively seeks new knowledge and adapts to new trends, technical solutions, and patterns that will improve the availability, reliability, efficiency, observability, and performance of products while also driving consistency in monitoring and operations at scale and shares knowledge with other engineers. | |